Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.